Thomas J. Holmes

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Curriculum Vitae

Recent working papers: (All of these can be read with Acrobat Reader)

• “An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade,” with John Stevens (April, 2009, very preliminary version distributed for seminar presentations)
• “The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density,” NBER Working Paper #13783, February 2008
1. Movie of Wal-Mart Store Openings.
2. Additional Opening Information
• “Optimal City Hierarchy: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Central Place Theory,” with Wen-Tai Hsu, April 2009
• “Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions,” with David K. Levine and James A Schmitz, Jr., NBER Working Paper #13864, Revised, Oct. 2008.
• “A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline,” with Julia Thornton Snider, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Paper #669, March 2009
• “Cities as Six-by-Six Mile Squares: Zipf’s Law?” with Sanghoon Lee, December 2008.
• “Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty,” with Sanghoon Lee, NBER Working Paper #14704, June 2009.
• “Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files,” with Michael Walrath, NBER Working Paper #13212, July 2007. Data Appendix. Data
• “Geographic Spillover of Unionism” April 2006.

Data

• Wal-Mart: (Selected data from “Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density”)
• State border data.
• County Business Pattern Establishment Data
• Data on Unions used in “Geographic Spillover of Unionism”
• Data on Unions used in “Dynamics of Union Organization: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files.”

Separate Appendices for Papers

• Separate Appendix for “The Location of Sales Offices and the Attraction of Cities”
• Separate Appendix for “Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?”
• Separate Appendix for Do Mergers Lead To Monopoly in the Long Run? Results From the Dominant Firm Model," with Gautam Gowrisankaran
• Separate Appendix for "Bar Codes Lead to Frequent Deliveries and Superstores,"

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